VISITORSCold spring area

Fishing and Boating

As the gateway of the Sauk River Chain of Lakes - Cold Spring offers a multitude of activities both on water and land. Two city parks offer access to Sauk River.Lions park offers picnic area, playground equipment along with fishing pier and boat landing. Launch your boat and discover the Sauk River Chain of Lakes. The chain is an interconnected system of 14 bay-like lakes fed and connected by the Sauk River.Frogtown Park also offers picnic and playground area. Frogtown Park also has a canoe launch from which you can travel downstream to St Cloud.

Brewhouse Tours

Theater& Music

The Great Northern Theatre Company (GNTC) performs three shows annually, 1 large summer musical in August at Rocori HS Auditorium and two dinner theaters in November and late Feb/early March, both at the Great Blue Heron.​The Cold Spring Area Maennerchor performs many local concerts throughout the area and throughout the year. They host an Octoberfest annually and a Dinner & Song Concert in the Spring. Made up of over 40 men and always looking for new men ages 16 and older.

Music Festivals

﻿The last weekend in July the Cold Spring Fire Department hosts Firefest - a country western music festival.The second weekend in August the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival is held El Rancho Campground

Horseback Riding

Ice Fishing

A favorite winter pass time is ice fishing. Access to nearby lakes and the Sauk River Chain is available. You can review fishing regulations along with ice safety tips which are available from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.​

ROCORI Trail

ROCORI Bike trail is still a work in progress as it gets connected to Rockville and other bike trails. Currently it offers a safe 3+ mile stretch for biking rollerblading, walking & running. During winter months it is used for cross country skiing and is part of the local snowmobile trail system.

Snowmobiling

The Country Snow Cruisers snowmobile club maintains miles of local trails. Snowmobilers are welcome in the City of Cold Spring, but are reminded to remain on the designated snowmobile route while in the city limits (unless going directly to or from the route system from home or a business).

Grasshopper Chapel

Assumption Chapel, also known as the Grasshopper Chapel, was built in petition for relief from the Grasshopper Plagues of the 1870s.The invasion happened within the course of 24 hours. One day the grain crops promised a bountiful harvest. By the next afternoon, they were blanketed by millions of Rocky Mountain grasshoppers. Farmers made every effort to stop the swarming insects but to no avail. The crops were destroyed, and, even worse, the grasshoppers honeycombed the countryside with eggs that would hatch next spring. Minnesota’s governor proclaimed April 26, 1877, a day of prayer and throughout the next few months the people of the Cold Spring area continued to pray. They vowed that if the Blessed Virgin would rid them of the grasshoppers, they would build a chapel and offer prayers to her for the next fifteen years. Construction of the chapel was the idea of Rev. Leo Winter, O.S.B., during the summer of 1876-1877.The next day, the grasshoppers were gone. The people kept their promise and built the chapel on a hill halfway between the parish in Jacobs Prairie and the mission in St. Nicholas. However, the first structure of Assumption Chapel was made of wood and a tornado in 1894 destroyed the chapel.Not until 1951 was the chapel reconstructed with the help of Father Victor Ronellenfitsch, O.S.B., and community members.Granite was donated for the structure in addition to other supplies and Grasshopper Chapel remains in existence today.Assumption Chapel is located in Cold Spring off of State Highway 23 and Chapel Hill Road